Meet Mark at the Cheltenham Science Festival

Want to learn more about Mark’s hit TV series, Dogs: Their Secret Lives ?Mark will be joined by the programme’s resident behaviour expert, Dr Emily Blackwell, and producer, Kirsty Wilson, for a session at this year’s internationally acclaimed Times Cheltenham Science Festival.The team will be talking about a range of subjects including separation anxiety, the importance of play, emotional contagion and the practical challenges of turning dog science in to prime time factual entertainment TV.The session will be peppered with video clips from the series and Mark is promising a quick-fire dog science quiz to see how much the audience knows about man’s best friend.

About

I present TV programmes. Not what you might call a ‘proper’ job and not something I ever set out to do. It sort of happened by accident. But it’s not a bad fit for my kind of brain. I am annoyingly curious but have a short attention span.

I struggle with reading – much prefer watching – and I have picked up most of what I now know from observing other people far more gifted than me. It’s taken a while but I think I’ve ended up OK at making the complicated easier to digest.